Governments worldwide have become hooked on consultancies. There is, however, little evidence consultants actually generate any value. Instead, the world's top consulting firms are shrouded in secrecy, and protected from the scrutiny of the outside world - Read more @CityAM

I recommend this razor sharp piece in the paper today on management consultants using AI (or pretending to). Once the cat's out of the bag, no one wants to pay full price for the slop. https://t.co/OM2eEN6l6r

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"Crumbling water industry is damaging Britain’s economy, MPs warn." Not forgetting of course that yesterday the @CommonsPAC published one of the most damming, excoriating reports I've ever read on the water industry. Well done. 👏👏👏 https://t.co/VHKohdVftM

This is industrial-scale corruption. Labour took £145k in free work from EY & PwC, then handed them £1.3bn in contracts in a year. They promised cuts. Instead, consultancy spending rose. The Big Four run Britain. The Civil Service is dead. We’ve been hijacked.

“Fraudsters are just criminals acting in a different sphere,” the SFO's director Nick Ephgrave said, as he outlined plans to use undercover officers, paid informants and targeted surveillance operations to fight corporate fraud https://t.co/vVGj1qgccA

⚖️The high-profile media lawyer who represented Gerry Adams in his libel trial against the BBC is now preparing to sue the world’s most powerful AI chatbots for defamation👇 https://t.co/Ahs7d390iw

Professor Laura Empson from @BayesBSchool and @atulkshah of @cityuniecon, @CityStGeorges speak with @LouisGoss_ and @Telegraph about changing perceptions of accountancy firms:

The front page of today's Daily Telegraph: 'Hands off Isas, banks tell Reeves'

🇬🇧 Hands Off Isas, Banks Tell Reeves ▫Lenders warn that cutting the tax-free allowance would punish pensioners and hurt growth ▫@LouisGoss_ @journomadeleine ▫ https://t.co/loHKM98mNu #frontpagestoday #UK @Telegraph

💬“Without that incentive of partnership, it’s harder to keep them motivated," says Professor Laura Empson of @BayesBSchool, discussing pathways for Big Four accountancy graduates to climb the ladder, with @LouisGoss_ and @Telegraph ⤵️ https://t.co/aOz9S3USPy

'The fundamental problem is that the market is not growing fast enough to sustain the amount of people moving up the pyramid' https://t.co/eb2aYJhKKq

“A lot of people talk about weeks where you work 80 billable hours. You don’t really know what that’s like until you’ve done it and it’s pretty brutal,” one ex-Slaughter & May lawyer said https://t.co/wSXWJh8IJC

Reach Plc, which owns the Mirror and the Express, is now paying more than two-thirds of its entire cash flow into the pensions scheme that was looted by Robert Maxwell. If revenues fall, the situation could put the entire firm at risk of collapse

TELEGRAPH; Pension fund giants boycott UK arms firms #TomorrowsPapersToday

#TomorrowsPapersToday - Daily Telegraph 'Two-tier' sentencing quango could be stripped of its powers Support journalism - #buyapaper More newspapers at: https://t.co/GfQBHXDwjj

🇬🇧 Pension Fund Giants Boycott UK Arms Firms ▫Aviva, Royal London and Nest among firms that restrict investment on ‘ethical’ grounds ▫@LouisGoss_ @Tony_Diver @bymichaelbow ▫ https://t.co/4iRLnLuilg #frontpagestoday #UK @Telegraph

Shell's plans to start turning green hydrogen into LNG have been dubbed a "complete economic fantasy" that would rely on huge taxpayer subsidies to become viable in any way

The backlogs in Britain's courts are being made worse by outsourcers like Serco, who are constantly late when bringing prisoners to court, barristers said https://t.co/FJYwwlvZk1

Britain has a bright future if it manages to make its core values shine again. Thank you @LouisGoss_ for this interview https://t.co/FPKGUfzWyw

Hedge funds plow cash into top tech stocks leading to record levels of crowding reports @LouisGoss_